[PATCH v2 00/28] CoreSight: Address CPU Power Management Issues

From: Leo Yan
Date: Tue Jul 01 2025 - 10:54:27 EST


This series addresses CPU power management issues in the CoreSight
drivers. For easier review, the patches are organized into two
categories:

o Patches 01 ~ 10 focus on CPU power management within the ETM drivers.
These patches fix SMP-safe access to the mode, correct context
synchronization, and refactor the CPU suspend/resume flows.

o Patches 11 ~ 28 extend CPU power management to cover activated paths,
including helpers, links, and sinks. These changes move CPU PM and
hotplug notifiers from the ETMv4 driver into the CoreSight core layer.

Summary of Changes:

- Patches 01 ~ 03: Fix device mode access in the SMP mode.
- Patch 04 : A minor fix for polling bit.
- Patches 05 ~ 07: Improve the context synchronization based on the ETM
specification (IHI0064H.b) and Arm ARM (ARM DDI 0487
L.a).
- Patches 08 ~ 10: Refactor the context save/restore flow in the ETMv4
driver, in the end, the CPU PM callbacks reuse the
normal enabling and disabling flows.
- Patches 11 ~ 17: Move CPU PM code from ETMv4 driver to the core layer.
- Patches 18 ~ 25: Enhance device mode handling in the CTI driver,
distinguishes debug mode from trace modes (Perf or
SysFS mode). Extend support activated paths during
CPU idle. Support save and restore context for
per-CPU sink (TRBE).
- Patches 26 ~ 28: Move CPU hotplug notifier from the ETMv4 driver to
the core layer. The full path is now managed in CPU
hotplug.

Verification:

This series has been verified on the following platforms:
- Hikey960, Juno-r0 and Juno-r2:
Note that the firmware on Hikey960 and Juno-r0 is unstable. While no
CoreSight failures were observed, but the CPU hotplug or CPU idle
itself may fail intermittently.
Juno-r2 is much stable and can pass 24+ hours stress test.
- FVP RevC: Verified TRBE changes.

Stress test script:

#!/usr/bin/bash

echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/tmc_etr0/enable_sink

while true; do
echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online;
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online;
done &

while true; do
echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/etm2/enable_source;
echo 0 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/etm2/enable_source;
done &

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Changes in v2:
- Refactored ETMv4 suspend and resume for reusing the normal enabling
and disabling flows (James).
- Used a per-CPU structure to maintain path pointers (James).
- Supported helpers in CPU PM flows (James).
- Fixed the SMP-safe access to device mode.
- Fixed the context synchronization in ETMv4x driver.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20250516160742.1200904-1-leo.yan@xxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxx>

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Leo Yan (27):
coresight: Change device mode to atomic type
coresight: etm4x: Always set tracer's device mode on target CPU
coresight: etm3x: Always set tracer's device mode on target CPU
coresight: etm4x: Correct polling IDLE bit
coresight: etm4x: Ensure context synchronization is not ignored
coresight: etm4x: Add context synchronization before enabling trace
coresight: etm4x: Properly control filter in CPU idle with FEAT_TRF
coresight: etm4x: Remove the state_needs_restore flag
coresight: etm4x: Add flag to control single-shot restart
coresight: etm4x: Reuse normal enable and disable logic in CPU idle
coresight: Populate CPU ID into the coresight_device structure
coresight: sysfs: Validate CPU online status for per-CPU sources
coresight: Set per CPU source pointer
coresight: Register CPU PM notifier in core layer
coresight: etm4x: Hook CPU PM callbacks
coresight: Add callback to determine if context save/restore is needed
coresight: etm4x: Remove redundant condition checks in save and restore
coresight: cti: Fix race condition by using device mode
coresight: cti: Introduce CS_MODE_DEBUG mode
coresight: cti: Properly handle modes in CPU PM notifiers
coresight: Add per-CPU path pointer
coresight: Add 'in_idle' argument to path enable/disable functions
coresight: Control path during CPU idle
coresight: Add PM callbacks for percpu sink
coresight: Take hotplug lock in enable_source_store() for Sysfs mode
coresight: Move CPU hotplug callbacks to core layer
coresight: Manage activated path during CPU hotplug

Yabin Cui (1):
coresight: trbe: Save and restore state across CPU low power state

drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c | 337 ++++++++++++--
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-ctcu-core.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-core.c | 40 +-
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c | 2 +-
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-dummy.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etb10.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm3x-core.c | 61 ++-
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 488 ++++++---------------
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h | 62 ---
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-funnel.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-replicator.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c | 10 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpda.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpdm.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpiu.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 85 ++++
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/ultrasoc-smb.c | 1 +
include/linux/coresight.h | 55 ++-
21 files changed, 665 insertions(+), 487 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 66701750d5565c574af42bef0b789ce0203e3071
change-id: 20250611-arm_cs_pm_fix_v3-f4ae29bb7d81

Best regards,
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Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxx>